In addition to not tracking you and being fully open-source, there are 12 search categories in its settings with literally hundreds of available search engines.
SearXNG is great but unfortunately Google frequently stops working as an engine in SearxNG because its anti-bot and rate‑limiting systems detect SearxNG traffic as automated scraping and either return CAPTCHAs, “access denied/suspended” messages, or HTTP 429 “too many requests” errors.
Their devs admit that there’s no simple solution because Google actively hunts and stops this traffic once a fix is implemented. The other search engines still work but I tend to get irrelevant nonsense as results. I have started using StartPage and am pretty happy with it so far as another option for a metasearchengine.
The other search engines still work but I tend to get irrelevant nonsense as results
Yahoo and Duckduckgo return pretty good results for me.
We are back to Yahoo?
Full internet circle.
I like it because there are some very obscure sites in its index I couldn’t find in any other search engine, which can be returned from fairly simple queries.
DDG has gone completely shitty for me recently.
Such a weird thing to be seeing.
I’ve switched the default search engine in Firefox to DDG finally, and I honestly haven’t noticed a difference in results. This may not be the best praise though, since Google has sucked for a number of years now.
At best, DDG results are only 33% less shitty than Google’s, but the UI is 2000% better.
Google frequently stops working as an engine
Don’t threaten me with a good time.
I wonder if routing it through FlareSolverr isn’t a solution.
Tried a few public instances and it seems like the only way to not get rate limited by the big players is probably to self-host.
Trying to wrap my head around how to self host and still keep it anonymous. Anyone have experience hosting a “private” instance that’s web accessible? Are tokens sufficient to keep others off it? Can you still get results routing through TOR?
Sadly, currently the situation is very bad. I was a searxng user till maybe last month, and now you basically can not use it. google returns nothing, ddg rate limits shortly, brave does same, bing and yahoo return random gibberish. startpage, leta and many other frontends return errors.
Still working fine for me
Works fine for me as well. Using public instances can be hit or miss. I just installed it locally, which I get is not possible for many, but it does work. Try lesser known instances.
Never had one issue with it.
